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above the umbilicus, and found a small circular perforation’ in the anterior wall of the first part of the duodenum. This; he excised, and closed the opening in the bowel by two rows of silk sutures and an omental flap. There was intense general peritonitis. The peritoneum was washed out with several quarts of warm boric solution and drained by a glass tube in each wound. About two pints of salt solution were injected into the left median cephalic vein. The patient died (from the peritonitis) ten hours after the operation. At the post.-mortem examination it was found that the lesion had been entirely excised, that the wound was water-tight, and that no other ulcer was present. There was intense general peritonitis. Had the case been treated immediately after the occurrence of the perforation there is reason to think that a favourable result might have been obtained.
Commissioners is month, and it is expected rumoured that the members will soon resume their sittings for its consideration. Mr. Welldon stated at the College of Preceptors that it would probably not be a unanimous report, and this confirms what we have heard on the subject. It will MR. GEORGE SMITH OF COALVILLE. be a great misfortune if the report is not strong enough to IN ensure the recommendations of the Commission being carried a leaflet on George Smith of Coalville-" The Children’s out, for the delay in the establishment of a Teaching Univer- Friend "-Mr. William Connor Sydney gives a short but sity is inflicting the gravest injury on the medical schools of sympathetic account of the life and labours of that benefactor London and all its higher educational institutions. of neglected child-life in England. The " enthusiasm of " has found no more energetic apostle in our time than the subject of this article. Finding, like many greatTHE DANGERS OF HYPNOTISM. hearted men, his inspiration in the condition of his own IN his opening address to the medical students at the surroundings-nay, in his own experience as a child-George University of Edinburgh last week, Professor Grainger Stewart Smith of Coalville, having acquired a hard-won competency, particularly directed the attention of the students to the devoted himself with sympathetic insight and characteristic following remarks : (1) that the hypnotic conditions energy to the solution of one of our most important social of all varieties were practically a diseased state of problems. "As the twig is bent the tree will grow " is a the nervous system, an artificial neurosis ; (2) that well-known truth in arboriculture. It is no less true that the hypnotism was undoubtedly able to modify certain influences which surround the human sapling have much to morbid processes of the nervous system, particularly do with the growth of the human organism. Through good those of a functional kind ; (3) that in certain conditions and evil report Mr. Smith has untiringly laboured for the results undoubtedly favourable, at least for the time, amelioration of the infant outcast, and he will leave his had been obtained by hypnotic treatment ; but (4) that name indelibly inscribed upon the beneficent legislation in every case hypnotic treatment involved hazard to the affecting neglected children. By voice and pen, and at the nervous system, that those who were most susceptible to its cost of personal exertion and his own means, he has had an influence were the most apt to suffer, and that though ii share in placing upon the statute-book enactments important might free the patient from one set of symptoms it was apt tc affecting the welfare of the children of the brickyards, make him the victim of many others. Therefore, he recomcanal barges, and nomadic gipsies’ tents. It need scarcely be mended the students to employ hypnotism very rarely, to a added that in his good work Mr. Smith has had to contend very moderate extent, and only after careful study of the with the short-sighted opposition of those whom it has been patient’s condition. his most earnest desire to serve, and whom he has succeeded to a great extent in serving in spite of themselves. It is ever THE TREATMENT OF PERFORATIVE PERITONITIS. thus; the children who build the sepulchres of the prophets THERE has recently been a case under care in London are the descendants of those who stoned their benefactor. which shows a continued advance in the surgical treatment That George Smith of Coalville may live long to continue his of peritonitis due to the perforation of an ulcer in the good work must be the desire of all who wish well to their race. duodenum. These cases are of the most fatal kind, and death rapidly follows the intense peritonitis which supervenes SMALL-POX DIFFUSION AND PROSPECTS. on perforation in this situation. Abdominal section has freDLRasG the past three or four weeks small-pox has given quently been performed with the view of arresting this fatal course ; but we are not aware of any operation which has indications that it is by no means a danger that has passed. been completed by excision of the ulcer and suture of the As was anticipated, during the months of July and August wound thus made. It is usually very difficult to find the there was a sensible diminution in the amount of the disease point of perforation, and the surgeon has to be contented and in the area of its distribution, but for several weeks past with washing out the abdominal cavity and leaving in a it has been clear that the infection not only retained its hold drainage-tube, the opening caused by the perforation still per- on a number of towns, but that in some of them it exhibited mitting of the escape of bowel contents into the peritoneum. a tendency to increase at an earlier date than might have been A young woman, a domestic servanf, was suddenly seized anticipated. Taking the three weeks ending respectively with severe pain in the right hype chondrium at 7 P. M. on Sept. 30th, Oct. 7th, and Oct. 14th, we find the following Sept. 2lst. Vomiting set in next morning, and she was then fresh attacks in each of those weeks : London, 18, 18, and treated for intestinal obstruction by repeated enemata &c. 17; West Ham, 7, 6, and 3 ; Bristol and St. George’s dishBecoming much worse, she vas admitted to the Middlesex trict, 8, 3, and 10 ; Walsall, 53, 45, and 49 ; Birmingham, Hospital under the care of Dr. Cayley, who diagnosed per- 30, 17, and 18 ; Bradford, 56, 20, and 43 ; Wakefield, 4, 1, forative peritonitis. Twenty-six hours after the onset of the and 2 ; Middlesbrough, 1, 2, and 1 ; and Leicester, 4, 0, and 1. illness Mr. Gould opened the abdomen above the pubes, Other places attacked during the same period are Hornsey,. and found the pelvic organs and the vermiform appendix Wolverhampton, Aston Manor, Derby, Chadderton, Oldham, normal and the fluid that escaped from the peritoneal Liverpool, Halifax, Dewsbury, York, Hull, Tynemouth, In Bradford an extension cavity acid in reaction. He therefore made another incisionI Brierley Hill, Quarry Bank, &c, THE
report of
the Gresham
University
to appear in the course of next
humanity
-
,
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above the umbilicus, and found a small circular perforation’ in the anterior wall of the first part of the duodenum. This; he excised, and closed the opening in the bowel by two rows of silk sutures and an omental flap. There was intense general peritonitis. The peritoneum was washed out with several quarts of warm boric solution and drained by a glass tube in each wound. About two pints of salt solution were injected into the left median cephalic vein. The patient died (from the peritonitis) ten hours after the operation. At the post.-mortem examination it was found that the lesion had been entirely excised, that the wound was water-tight, and that no other ulcer was present. There was intense general peritonitis. Had the case been treated immediately after the occurrence of the perforation there is reason to think that a favourable result might have been obtained.
Commissioners is month, and it is expected rumoured that the members will soon resume their sittings for its consideration. Mr. Welldon stated at the College of Preceptors that it would probably not be a unanimous report, and this confirms what we have heard on the subject. It will MR. GEORGE SMITH OF COALVILLE. be a great misfortune if the report is not strong enough to IN ensure the recommendations of the Commission being carried a leaflet on George Smith of Coalville-" The Children’s out, for the delay in the establishment of a Teaching Univer- Friend "-Mr. William Connor Sydney gives a short but sity is inflicting the gravest injury on the medical schools of sympathetic account of the life and labours of that benefactor London and all its higher educational institutions. of neglected child-life in England. The " enthusiasm of " has found no more energetic apostle in our time than the subject of this article. Finding, like many greatTHE DANGERS OF HYPNOTISM. hearted men, his inspiration in the condition of his own IN his opening address to the medical students at the surroundings-nay, in his own experience as a child-George University of Edinburgh last week, Professor Grainger Stewart Smith of Coalville, having acquired a hard-won competency, particularly directed the attention of the students to the devoted himself with sympathetic insight and characteristic following remarks : (1) that the hypnotic conditions energy to the solution of one of our most important social of all varieties were practically a diseased state of problems. "As the twig is bent the tree will grow " is a the nervous system, an artificial neurosis ; (2) that well-known truth in arboriculture. It is no less true that the hypnotism was undoubtedly able to modify certain influences which surround the human sapling have much to morbid processes of the nervous system, particularly do with the growth of the human organism. Through good those of a functional kind ; (3) that in certain conditions and evil report Mr. Smith has untiringly laboured for the results undoubtedly favourable, at least for the time, amelioration of the infant outcast, and he will leave his had been obtained by hypnotic treatment ; but (4) that name indelibly inscribed upon the beneficent legislation in every case hypnotic treatment involved hazard to the affecting neglected children. By voice and pen, and at the nervous system, that those who were most susceptible to its cost of personal exertion and his own means, he has had an influence were the most apt to suffer, and that though ii share in placing upon the statute-book enactments important might free the patient from one set of symptoms it was apt tc affecting the welfare of the children of the brickyards, make him the victim of many others. Therefore, he recomcanal barges, and nomadic gipsies’ tents. It need scarcely be mended the students to employ hypnotism very rarely, to a added that in his good work Mr. Smith has had to contend very moderate extent, and only after careful study of the with the short-sighted opposition of those whom it has been patient’s condition. his most earnest desire to serve, and whom he has succeeded to a great extent in serving in spite of themselves. It is ever THE TREATMENT OF PERFORATIVE PERITONITIS. thus; the children who build the sepulchres of the prophets THERE has recently been a case under care in London are the descendants of those who stoned their benefactor. which shows a continued advance in the surgical treatment That George Smith of Coalville may live long to continue his of peritonitis due to the perforation of an ulcer in the good work must be the desire of all who wish well to their race. duodenum. These cases are of the most fatal kind, and death rapidly follows the intense peritonitis which supervenes SMALL-POX DIFFUSION AND PROSPECTS. on perforation in this situation. Abdominal section has freDLRasG the past three or four weeks small-pox has given quently been performed with the view of arresting this fatal course ; but we are not aware of any operation which has indications that it is by no means a danger that has passed. been completed by excision of the ulcer and suture of the As was anticipated, during the months of July and August wound thus made. It is usually very difficult to find the there was a sensible diminution in the amount of the disease point of perforation, and the surgeon has to be contented and in the area of its distribution, but for several weeks past with washing out the abdominal cavity and leaving in a it has been clear that the infection not only retained its hold drainage-tube, the opening caused by the perforation still per- on a number of towns, but that in some of them it exhibited mitting of the escape of bowel contents into the peritoneum. a tendency to increase at an earlier date than might have been A young woman, a domestic servanf, was suddenly seized anticipated. Taking the three weeks ending respectively with severe pain in the right hype chondrium at 7 P. M. on Sept. 30th, Oct. 7th, and Oct. 14th, we find the following Sept. 2lst. Vomiting set in next morning, and she was then fresh attacks in each of those weeks : London, 18, 18, and treated for intestinal obstruction by repeated enemata &c. 17; West Ham, 7, 6, and 3 ; Bristol and St. George’s dishBecoming much worse, she vas admitted to the Middlesex trict, 8, 3, and 10 ; Walsall, 53, 45, and 49 ; Birmingham, Hospital under the care of Dr. Cayley, who diagnosed per- 30, 17, and 18 ; Bradford, 56, 20, and 43 ; Wakefield, 4, 1, forative peritonitis. Twenty-six hours after the onset of the and 2 ; Middlesbrough, 1, 2, and 1 ; and Leicester, 4, 0, and 1. illness Mr. Gould opened the abdomen above the pubes, Other places attacked during the same period are Hornsey,. and found the pelvic organs and the vermiform appendix Wolverhampton, Aston Manor, Derby, Chadderton, Oldham, normal and the fluid that escaped from the peritoneal Liverpool, Halifax, Dewsbury, York, Hull, Tynemouth, In Bradford an extension cavity acid in reaction. He therefore made another incisionI Brierley Hill, Quarry Bank, &c, THE
report of
the Gresham
University
to appear in the course of next
humanity
-
,